C. DeLores Tucker

C. DeLores Tucker(Cynthia DeLores Nottage),
(born Oct. 4, 1927, Philadelphia, Pa.—died Oct. 12, 2005, Philadelphia), American political activist who , in the 1990s spearheaded a campaign against the foul language and misogyny found in the lyrics of gangsta-rap music. Tucker became politically active as a teenager. She marched in 1965 with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Ala., and in 1984 she helped found the National Political Congress of Black Women. In her career Tucker held high-level positions with the Democratic Party, the National Women’s Caucus, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and in the 1970s she served as secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.